Python Mocking, You Are A Tricksy Beast

Python mocking there is something unintuitive about you. You are not easy to get to grips with and it takes several “Ah, now I get it!” moments before you are better understood. You are a powerful, fantastic tool for enabling automated unit tests, but I know…

You (Probably) Don’t Need For-Loops

The original title was “Never Write For-Loops Again” but I think it misled people to think that…

6 things to develop an efficient web scraper in Python

Building A Tetris Bot Part 1: The Stupid Bot

So this weekend, I decided to try and built a Tetris bot. I play Tetris Battle on…

The Trusted Packaging Index

A proposal for funding PyPI infrastructure and development

CPython memory management

Python, just like other high-level programming languages such as Java, Ruby or Javascript, manages memory automatically. But often developers don’t pay proper attention to memory management, because it’s done for them which may lead to excessive memory usage and leaks. This post is…